The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-06-03
NEWS ANDOTHER NOTINGS.


Cause of the unrelisbilty of the employees.
The BelIefonte Nail aud Iron Company
is shipping nails TO Portland. Ore, Mexico
and Valparaiso. Chill. It IS turning out
500 kegs day.
Mrs Samuel Meredith, of Patterson,
Miffn county, who weighed 400 pounds, Tell
dead Saturday evening from apoplexy after
a hard days work.
Annie Shaeffer, of Oriental. Juniata
county, cougbed up a needle on Monday
that had lodged in her throat more than three
years ago.
The large steam saw mill at Snu~ Shoe,
Centre county. owned by Byers. Hopkins IL
Co of Lock haven. was totally DESTROYED by
fire Tuesday morning Loss $50. 900;
insurance, Sl0. 600
Benjamin = Evans, tax collector Of
Banks township. Lazerne county. has been
arrested on n charge preferred by the School
Board of emoezziing 8. 800. He was sent
to the Mauch Chunk Jail tc await trial.
SENATOR Stanfnrd's vinyard at Vina, Cal,
is probably the largest in tie world. On
SO, 900 acre ranch hs has 3 500 acres planted
in bearing vines The vineyard is divided
into 800 acre tracts ami most or the work is
done BY Chinese.
The Lehlgh Coal and Navigation Com
pany on Monday announced semi-aunual
dividend of per cent, payable on June Il.
The business OF the company for the first
six months of the year shows a marked
increase compared with the same period OF
last year.
Mrs. Nancy Bri;:on died recently in
Germanto ia, of 4 cancer i'll the face,
at the age Of niuety-nine years ard seven
months Her husband died eleven years ago
at the age of uinety-sight. She leaves fouI
children ard forty grandchildren and great
grandchildren.
President Judge Gunnison, of Erie
decided last week against the legality Of an
ordinance of that city under which ''chain-
gang" composed chiefly If tramps, was es-
tsbIshed 20 WORK on the streets, and the
prisoners were discharged. The issue was
made in Court by the knights of Labor.
Eleven cars, all loaded with high-class
freight, were demolished IN a wreck on the
PennsyivanIa Railroad, about half a mile
west of Irwin Station, early Sunday morn
ing No lives were lost, but the freight
that was spoiled and damaged, and the
rolling stock that vas destroyed, will cost
the railroad company good many thousand
dollars.
"A burglar entered the house OF John II.
Richardson, of Waterloo. Y. Y, the other
night. and in doing 50 awoke Mrs Richard
son, who jumped out OF bed and knocked
him down with chair. The burglar man
aged to get up and escape. but not before
he hit the plucky woman on the head with
a sand bag. The blow was not serious in
its results.
In his admirable address before the
Church Temperance Society In New York
City on Sunday evening, the Rev DR.. w. r.
Huntington prescribed the three Ts-Toil,
Thrift and TempeIauce-as the best antidote
for poverty. The phrase was so happy that
il was caught up at once, and now if is said
that society Is to be organized in that city
which will aim TO spread the idea.
-Informa lion that disastrous results had
followed the use of a special ink manufac-
tured for writing on glass caused a stir in
the New York Health Department Friday.
Dr. Cyrus Edson's attention was called to
the fact that a lady had to have q finger
amputsted owing to the poison absorbed
from the ink. 1t is made of flour spar dis
solved IN suiphuric acid. Its further sale
has been prohibited.
Re pats made TO Thomas }. Edge, Sec
retary of the State Board of Agriculture,
indicate a wheat crop far below the average.
The short yield is ascribed to dry weather
after seeding the drifting winds of winter,
which blew all the snow of the fields and
left the grain unprotected at critical period
of its growth a heavy rain which froze and
March winds which dried out the roots.
The wheat yield Is estimated al about 10 jo0,-
600 bushels. An average yield in this State
is II, SOC. 600.
"A man named Magee was on trial re-
Gently, in Bedford county, for making illicit
whisky, but as il couldn't be shown that he
had made any within four years be was ac-
quilted. The stin which Magee used seems
TO be possessed of wings. 1t has been
located in the mountains of Virginia and
Maryland. and in Fulton and Bedford coun-
ties. this State, and although the Govern
ment officials have been after it for % years,
they have never been able to capture it. At
one llAtlc tEeIt was . te"HIu Ol c-Jou Oueitu
for it. Its location is a mystery at the pre-
sent time.
Sixteen year-Old Patrick j. Smith sac
rificed his life to save that of a smaller COM
panion on Wednesday. Smith was en- ployed
IN Hamilton's paper mill, at Lafayette,
Montgomery county. He and another lad
were engaged in asserting rags when the
clothing OF the latter caught IN the machin-
cry. Smith sprang forward and, while ex-
Treating his oo-laborer, had one Of his hands
caught by the machinery. He was whirled
around and thrown to the floor, sustaining a
conclusion of the brain and other injuries
from which he died in the Pen .sylv.nla
Hospital, Philadelphia.
For the first time In the history Of Mary
land Grand Army post attended services
in a Catholic church az Baltimore on Sun
day last, in uniform. II was Burnside Post,
with its drum corps and the Howard Zou-
aves, all in uniform, but without music.
The veterans were escorted by the Knights
of St. Aloysius. The services consisted OF
a mass and an address by the priest, Father
Jordan. He praised the soldiers and said
that their attendance broke down the bar
/ rier which has hitherto existed between the
; Catholic Church and bodies outside the
church. Although former Invitations, he
said, were rot accepted il was not on ac-